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15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid: The War / The Desert / The Labyrinth by Ovid
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.97Two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Ovid gave voice to a group of inspirational women - queens, sorcerers, pioneers, poets and politicians - in a series of fictional letters called The Heroines... -
Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.99'Brave and ambitious' Independent In a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso and Handel each set upon the same plan - to flee the city by train. Finding themselves fellow passengers, the poet, the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy by Thea S. Thorsen
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $151.77Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe... -
Poems from Greek Antiquity by Paul Quarrie
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.52There is a great deal more to Greek poetry than the Iliad or the Odyssey. Shorter masterpieces abound, and the lyrical and elegiac poems, odes, and epigrams in this volume give an unparalleled... -
How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser 9780691201078
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one-aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous... -
Greek Lyric: v. 3: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides and Others by David A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: $53.19Precious snippets of ancient song.The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BC came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"-a... -
Love and Longing Jacqueline Wilson 9781840465235
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $9.95"This heady collection features love poems and prose excerpts by writers including Sappho, Shakespeare, Milton, the Brontes, and Wordsworth. Works are loosely arranged according to chapter headings... -
How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691177199
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.78A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever writtenIn a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep... -
The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes by Diane J. Rayor 9780520282117
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $35.68The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they... -
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.74LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Frank, provocative and... -
Journeys of a Mystic Soul in Poetry and Prose Cecilia Del Nacimiento 9780772721181
Booksplease Price: $102.90This edition, which offers a bilingual selection of poetry and selected prose translated into English by the nun-author Cecilia del Nacimiento (1570-1646), increases contemporary scholars' access to,... -
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."-The Times A... -
Iambic Ideas: Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire by Alberto Cavarzere 9780742508170
Booksplease Price: $107.52Iambic Ideas, explores the concept of the 'iambic' as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural... -
100 Poets: A Little Anthology by John Carey 9780300258011
Booksplease Price: $36.48A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."-The Times A... -
Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics by Derek Wall
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $113.61Green History traces the development of ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and... -
Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society by Andre Lardinois
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $88.12This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and... -
The Wild Track: adopting, mothering, belonging by Margaret Reynolds
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95'A remarkable book...wise and arresting' Sarah Winman'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.'... -
Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $45.49In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themes-community, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics, sense, and meaning-as part of a deep and mature... -
Beauty and the Gods: A History from Homer to Plato by Hugo Shakeshaft 9780691250205
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $72.14How ideas and experiences of beauty informed human relationships with the divine in ancient GreeceBeginning with the earliest Greek literature, the epics of Homer and Hesiod, beauty was seen as... -
Celestial Sleuthing: More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature Donald W. Olson 9783032099884
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $50.69Many mysteries in art, history, and literature can be solved using "celestial sleuthing," including calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying... -
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy Sara Brill 9781032626987
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $97.50The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women, gender, and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features... -
A History of Women in Music From Antiquity to Present Day Dale DeBakcsy 9781036104337
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.38In 2024, women swept the Grammy awards, prompting headlines about their arrival in music. However, women have been shaping pivotal musical developments over the past 3,000 years. A History of Women... -
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The Wild Track: adopting, mothering, belonging by Margaret Reynolds 9781529176612 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $12.98'A remarkable book...wise and arresting' Sarah Winman'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.'... -
The Rose by Jennifer Potter
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $44.88This vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.Ever since... -
The Bright Field by Margaret Reynolds
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.43'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.' Helena Kennedy'Extremely moving...an unusually... -
Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity by David H. J. Larmour
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $97.73In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous... -
The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species by Ruth Vanita 9780192859822
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $166.95This book shows that many characters in the Sanskrit epics - men and women of all varnas and mixed-varna - discuss and criticize discrimination based on gender, varna, poverty, age, and disability... -
Myth, Philosophy, and Literature: Exploring Thought, Story, and Culture Olivier Serrat 9789819528967
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $66.23This book explores significant literary and critical thinking achievements that have shaped our world. This slim yet comprehensive guide is divided into three parts: Dawn of the Western Tradition,... -
New Directions in Musical Collaborative Creativity: The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and the Theater of Home Raymond MacDonald 9780197752845
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $47.29During the COVID-19 pandemic, creative communities were faced with unprecedented challenges and forced to embark upon a re-evaluation of traditional approaches to artistic collaboration. In the wake... -
New Directions in Musical Collaborative Creativity: The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and the Theater of Home by Raymond MacDonald 9780197752838
Booksplease Price: $186.61During the COVID-19 pandemic, creative communities were faced with unprecedented challenges and forced to embark upon a re-evaluation of traditional approaches to artistic collaboration. In the wake... -
Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance by Amelia Possanza
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $25.85Charting the stories of Olympic athletes and lesbian memoirists, via Sappho, Lesbian Love Story is a genre-defying respository of sapphic romance like no other.On her quest to discovering lesbian... -
Incest: A New Perspective by Mary Hamer 9780745624150
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She places sexual abuse in the context of the whole... -
The Classics in Modernist Translation by Lynn Kozak 9781350177468
Booksplease Price: $72.39This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays... -
Unruly Catholics from Dante to Madonna: Faith, Heresy, and Politics in Cultural Studies by Marc DiPaolo 9780810888517
Booksplease Price: $216.53During the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church went through a period of liberal reform under the stewardship of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. Successive popes sharply reversed course,... -
Queer Heroes Arabelle Sicardi 9780711297197
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24This beautiful, bold book celebrates the achievements of LGBTQ+ people through history and from around the world - featuring dynamic full-colour portraits of a diverse selection of 53 inspirational... -
Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha 9780192858498
RRP: $249.90Booksplease Price: $231.63The 24 essays collected in this book address the complex interactions between concepts of time, grammatical tense, and type of genre of prose or poetry in ancient Greek literature. The chronological... -
Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy from our Hairstyles to our Shoes by Professor Ruthann Robson
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $53.40This book examines how the intertwining of clothes and the United States Constitution raises fundamental questions of hierarchy, sexuality and democracy. Constitutional considerations both constrain... -
The Essential Aeneid by Virgil 9780872207905
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.36Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended... -
The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems by Ko Un 9780520246133
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $42.19Ko Un, the preeminent Korean poet of the twentieth century, embraces Buddhism with the versatility of a master Taoist sage. A beloved cultural figure who has helped shape contemporary Korean... -
Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature by Walter Duvall Penrose 9780199533374
RRP: $205.80Booksplease Price: $204.77Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s...